Writing


  • The Aztec or Nahuatl writing is a pictographic writing system.
  • Their writing is not concidered to be completed writing system that can communicate everything that can be expressed verbally and understood without a great deal of contextual information.
  • Their numerical system was vigesimal. they indicated quantities up to twenty by the requisite number of dots. A flat was used to indicate twenty this repeat over and over until they ritch four hundred. A sign like a fir tree, meaning numerous as hairs, signified four hundred. the next was a bag witch means eight thousand.

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